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I've called out Horseman on multiple occasions for his comments, for personal attacks. One example is when he has attacked Boyo for his cancer. Horseman is a "win at all costs" type of arguer -- he will bring up anything no matter how inappropriate to win an argument. Once you view his comments through this lens, they are easier to understand at least. That being said, rooting for fires is not a personal attack, and seems like more of a shock value comment. Studies have shown that rent control actually increases the overall cost of housing, and decreases the quality of existing units. Among the reasons is that it discourages new builds which will be subject to such artificially low pricing, and disincentivizes investment in maintenance and improvements. As with most liberal ideas, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Then again, you are a capitalist, so you should already realize this.

Here's the thing, tho. I had never flown Frontier before and it was... great! Convenient departure times both ways for nonstop flights, both times the plane was there plenty early, we boarded early, backed away from the gate early, arrived on time or early. Sure they nickel and dime you ($4 for a coffee?), but the entire roundtrip for BOTH of us including the charge for a carry-on bag was something like $432. Granted, we left on a Saturday, but that is hella cheap. Apparently Phoenix is something of a hub, as they had at least 5 gates dedicated to them, so I'll definitely consider them again for my future flights, particularly to Detroit where my wife's family lives. Oh, and to the later question of upgraded seats: they had 3 or 4 rows in the front where they blocked off the middle seat, sort of a poor-man's first class.

Can't tell. I do see a majority white looking backs of heads, but I can't see them all

Yeah, we are lucky. League started 30+ years ago, same commissioner throughout. All friends or friends of friends for (rare) replacement owners, and we're pretty much (if not completely) all engineers, so not much drama. Occasional drama tho. Commish put down the hammer this year that there will be no exceptions to our rules (which are quite extensive, because we are engineers)

I'm on a Frontier flight from Detroit to Phoenix as I type. 2/3 the passengers are middle eastern or other POC

Happened in my main league a few years back we made a rule that high scorer is guaranteed 6th place. We're also discussing adding victory points (?) Where you get a win if you are top 6 scoring every week, along with H2H.

I needed a score. I think he had too much built up speed flying untouched thru the line to get caught, unless someone had an angle I missed.

Focking Barkley and his slide lost me a +800 parlay.

If it hasn't been mentioned, the Rams/Vikes game is officially moved to Phoenix on Monday. Some people are butt hurt because our stadium is "State Farm Stadium," and they are hating on insurance companies. My kids got tickets; my daughter works for a Minny-based company, and my son is just a big sports fan, and they were pretty cheap for playoff tix. My wife and I are flying back from Michigan that day so we passed.

It's hard to believe that we spend 12X of China. Aren't they building one or more warships per day or something crazy like that?

What is their stance?

Retard

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2024-10-05-tropical-depression-fourteen-storm-hurricane-milton

Glad to hear you are OK. Keep safe, and thanks for giving us an update.

I can't say I've seen a ton, but I really enjoyed Iron Claw (I know, pro wrestling...)

No, it was wonderfully incisive. You'd have fit in well here back in the good old days, where we were a bit more... tough love with each other.

Dang, that's cold bro!

Thanks, will do. I'd also love to meet up with @DonS, who was extremely helpful to me in the early days of my cancer/surgery/treatments. Remarkably, I've never been to the Seattle area (airport connections don't count IMO). Despite being in tech sales, until recently my type of "tech" wasn't overly represented there.

Sure, I know of him. There is an article about him and the movie in the latest ASU Thrive (alumni magazine,) although I haven't had a chance to read it yet: https://news.asu.edu/20241113-sun-devil-community-unstoppable-anthony-robles-amazon-movie-mothers-love Also, the film premier was postponed (supposed to be last night) due to the LA wildfires. https://www.azfamily.com/video/2025/01/09/asu-wrestler-anthony-robles-film-premier-canceled-due-la-wildfires/

Feature, bug... tomato, tomahto...

Football update: Contingency plan for Rams/Vikes on Monday night is to play it here in Phoenix same night: https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/nfl/cardinals/2025/01/08/nfl-considering-arizona-as-an-option-for-rams-vikings-playoff-game-amid-fire-danger/77558730007/?utm_source=azcentral-dailybriefing-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailybriefing-greeting&utm_term=newsletter-greeting&utm_content=pphx-phoenix-nletter02

I could see that. In our case, Bier set us up with a semi-private tour -- the three of us, and another group of two couples IIRC. Got to learn the history of the place and taste a lot of fun stuff, all in a small group. Another great tasting was at Del Dotto, I think we went to the middle one here including the cave testing: https://www.deldottovineyards.com/visit-us/ We got a shiot ton of wine during the cask tasting in the caves; I loved it, but my wife got too drunk (she didn't realize until too late that she could dump/spit what she didn't want). Because of drinking too much, we bought a bunch of bottles at the end... and a wine bottle airport travel case. Anyway, yeah, we've been sitting on that bottle of Kathryn Hall, and thought about opening it over Christmas, but I came up with the idea of saving it for my 5th year survival of surgery.

If he gives away a ton of money between now and then, it might leave a dent. Should we not comment on it?

Never got into Skoal, although I'm confident I started with it. Once I found Kodiak I did that for a while, but then moved to Grizzly because it was almost as good, cheaper, and didn't have that rumor about putting crushed glass in it to cut your lip and increase the nicotine/carcinogen intake.

I'm inclined to agree with this. A lame-duck POTUS should not be able to do much other than prep for the new person. Both sides do it; this isn't aimed at Biden specifically, definitely the pardons. Although I don't recall Trump doing stuff like this Ukraine thing on his way out. This is however a unique situation, because Biden isn't running anything. Whoever is running the country clearly wants to make a statement with these moves.